Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
http://www.jessops.com/online.store...t-system-camera-body-in-black-89689/show.html
...rendering my XE1 a useless pile of crap!
...rendering my XE1 a useless pile of crap!
Fuji Xe2 In Jessops
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Pete Askew
Admin
Absolutely. To be honest I wouldn't be seen dead with an XE1! 
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Haha. I'm happy with mine, that's for sure. Could do with another lens or two, a better tripod, better bag, screens, reflectors, etc, etc...expensive hobby!
Dave Young
Well-Known Member
I need all those for my X-Pro... damned Fuji's
Mind you, I'm kind of pleased I went with what I did now. For some reason, I'd of kind of feel a bit short changed if I had bought the XE-1 regardless of how good it is in it's own right!
Chris Dodkin
West Coast Correspondent
My guess is they'll be an XE-5 eventually, then we'll all be in trouble!
Lenses is where the long term money should go Rob - a good lens will last many changes in camera body (man I sound like an old fart! )
Lenses is where the long term money should go Rob - a good lens will last many changes in camera body (man I sound like an old fart!
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Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
What do you mean, "sound like"? 
Well, just buying one lens will be a big spend for me, and I'm having trouble deciding which to go for, as it will be a while before I get the following one. I'm really impressed with the 14mm you reviewed the other day @Chris Dodkin - but then the 55-200mm is also calling me for portraits and landscapes. Then the 60mm prime for my new career as a food photographer...Somebody make my mind up for me!
Well, just buying one lens will be a big spend for me, and I'm having trouble deciding which to go for, as it will be a while before I get the following one. I'm really impressed with the 14mm you reviewed the other day @Chris Dodkin - but then the 55-200mm is also calling me for portraits and landscapes. Then the 60mm prime for my new career as a food photographer...Somebody make my mind up for me!
Pete Askew
Admin
No, we like to watch you suffer!
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Tempted by the 60mm which fuji are offering as a refurb for £399...great price, and they've never yet let me down with their refurb stock. It would do portraits and close ups - not real macro, which I don't really want to do anyway.
Pete Askew
Admin
It would be a nice focal length to have. What do you usually use for them?
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
I've never had a portrait lens, so-called. The X100 has a fixed 23mm, and I have the 18-55 zoom for the xe1. And macro work via the macro button - not exactly macro!
Pete Askew
Admin
And do you use the 55mm end of the zoom for portraits, or shorter? What is the differnce in maximum apertures of these two lenses?
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
I'll have to look that up, but I'm just heading out the door to get a train to Glasgow???the girls will be shopping, and I'll be taking my camera....must go!
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Why all the question marks after G lash ow? Glasgow! My iPad keyboard is going crazy!
Pete Askew
Admin
That'll be the Edinburgh filter kicking in!
Davie Hudson
Well-Known Member
you're an east coaster Rob, it's foreign country you're headin into
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Just back. I have never gelled with Glasgow. I left the girls shopping. But the hell didn't end there, oh no...Managed to find myself a seat on the train home at a table, very quiet...then, just as the doors were closing, a wild, raucous, drunken, screeching hen party dived in around me - all Glaswegians. I pretended they didn't exist. Impossible. Then I pretended I didn't exist. Almost possible, but not quite. Finally decided to get up to leave, move to another carriage, but this caused chaos. They all thought it would be fun to feel my derriere, try to pull me back, all the while screeching. I broke loose. When the train stopped, I ran to the next carriage, but the only seat was right outside the stinking toilet. At least it was quiet...well it was until the girls from the hen party came to use said toilet, as the one in their carriage was blocked up. They saw me, and more hysterics followed. I managed to get to the next carriage, the front one - no more ahead of me - but not before the guy with the food trolley managed to run the wheel over my right foot....
Finally escaped at Haymarket station. Walked home. It's so calm here...
Anyway, while in Glasgow I found a shop called Merchant City Cameras, and they had the Fuji 60mm prime and the 200mm zoom, which I was able to try out on my camera. The 60mm had a real problem finding focus - the salesman was surprised - and we had to use manual focus. That said, the images were good. The zoom was great. Managed to capture a Neanderthal across the road...
These images are poor because I was nervous - I always am with shop assistants. And I just snapped too quickly without thinking. It's not been a good day. And after this, I think I'll go and lie down for an hour!
Zoom -
60mm -
Finally escaped at Haymarket station. Walked home. It's so calm here...
Anyway, while in Glasgow I found a shop called Merchant City Cameras, and they had the Fuji 60mm prime and the 200mm zoom, which I was able to try out on my camera. The 60mm had a real problem finding focus - the salesman was surprised - and we had to use manual focus. That said, the images were good. The zoom was great. Managed to capture a Neanderthal across the road...
These images are poor because I was nervous - I always am with shop assistants. And I just snapped too quickly without thinking. It's not been a good day. And after this, I think I'll go and lie down for an hour!
Zoom -
60mm -
Dave Young
Well-Known Member
I'm tempted by a 60mm for exactly the same reasons Rob. From what I've read they're a tad slower focussing than the rest of the Fuji bunch but images are very smooth.
Pat Reehal
Well-Known Member
" Managed to capture a Neanderthal across the road..."
I know that chap, he's Alex Salmond's personal fitness trainer.
I know that chap, he's Alex Salmond's personal fitness trainer.
Pete Askew
Admin
You can just see that salesman thinking, "If he doesn't buy one of these bloody lenses after all this I'm gonna' call that revenge company up the road, Guerilla Gals, and get them to make his life hell on the way back to Edinburgh! Hmm and I wonder if my brother-in-law is working the catering shift on the train this afternoon?" Ah, the trial and tribulations of being a Hotty Scotty!
